Michael Frayn
Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn talks to John Wilson about his formative cultural influences and experiences.
Over a seven-decade career, Michael Frayn has been acclaimed as a novelist, playwright, journalist, translator & memoirist. From his comedies – including the stage farce Noises Off, and a screenplay for Clockwise starring John Cleese, and the novels Headlong and Skios – to the complex political, historical and scientific themes of his stage plays Democracy and Copenhagen, he has been prolific in a diverse array of genres and subjects. He is also renowned for his stage adaptations of the works of Russian writers including Anton Chekhov. At 92, Michael Frayn advised on a recent revival of Copenhagen for the Hampstead Theatre.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
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- Next Thursday11:00BBC Radio 4
- Sat 9 May 202619:15BBC Radio 4
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